The mobile vending machine was launched in March 2019 and distributed free HIV self tests at the 3rd B-Right-On LGBT Community Festival. This is a free standing machine that automatically connects to the internet via Wi-Fi and can be taken to any events and venues providing there is an electrical source. The mobile stand weighs … Read more
The next step in the development of the HIV Digital Vending Machines is their re-purposing into Sexual Health Digital Vending Machines. As part of the COVID-19 response Brighton and Sussex Universities Hospital NHS Trust has given us financial support to achieve this. Machines that were housed at the Rainbow Hub, Subline and the Marlborough have … Read more
One of Martin’s many projects was the vision of a digital health platform and in 2015 the EmERGE project was started under a five year HORIZON 2020 funded project www.emergeproject.eu. Conceived by Professor Martin Fisher and completed by the EmERGE team who are proud to have brought it to fruition in his memory. The team … Read more
On Monday 22nd June 2020 a partnership between the Brighton-based HIV charity, The Martin Fisher Foundation and not for profit organisation EmERGE M-Health Ltd, saw the launch of a Hepatitis and HIV screening programme for all temporarily housed rough sleepers (about 200 of them) in Brighton & Hove. Outreach workers from Brighton & Sussex University … Read more
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Dear Friends At this difficult and worrying time, the British HIV Association and Terence Higgins Trust have released a statement about social distancing for people living with HIV. We hope that you will find this helpful. Click here for the link.
EmERGE mHealth Limited is a not-for-profit company formed to deliver a sustainable patient-clinic communication tool in the treatment and care of people living with HIV following a successful five year European Union funded Horizon 2020 research project (Grant No. 643736). The EmERGE project enabled HIV clinicians and people who live with HIV to co-design a … Read more
Researchers advance digital health through European Consortium. An international partnership of clinicians, social scientists, technology developers and HIV community activists met in Brighton in October for their penultimate consortium meeting. The University of Brighton leads two crucial aspects of the European Commission funded EmERGE project. Researchers from the Centre for Digital Media Cultures – Professor … Read more
On Sunday 1st December the Martin Fisher Foundation joined with other organisations in Brighton and Hove to remember those we have lost to HIV. We continue to move forward with the goal of ZERO new cases of HIV and ZERO stigma around HIV. We are so proud of our bus designed by the wonderful Daniel … Read more
